Musings

Some claim it’s a myth we only use ten percent of our potential. I don’t know how this can be...

Fear and anxiety have walked beside me basically my entire life.  Friends they are not, however during the covid fiasco...

Do you ever get impatient?  We all do.  I hate the thought of things taking time and the process of...

Don’t you hate losing things?  I feel like I spend one third of my life looking for things I’ve misplaced...

The most frequent prayer that rolls off my lips is, “Lord Jesus, help me.”  Only four short words, it sounds...

When I received the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Catholic Church in 6th grade, the nuns endlessly drilled into our...

As a mother and wife, I have heard the words, “Not now” or “I’ll do it later” far too often....

There are times in life where we just don’t know what to do or which direction to take.  To quote...

1-16-2023 It’s Ordinary Time.  If you are Catholic, you know what that means.  The Christmas season is officially over, (sigh...

I just want to lay at Your feet and absorb Your love, O Lord for I am weary of this...

I know I should be thankful I have enough food to eat, but four days after Christmas I was still...

Have you ever experienced the “magnet of God”?  What is that, you might wonder? One day I hadn’t planned to...

Have you ever prayed for something for years?  Were your prayers answered?  Were they answered the way you hoped? There...

Remember bookmarkers?  Back in the day when Hallmark shops had a carousel with tasseled words of wisdom?  As a child,...

I wonder what happened to the common phrase I heard throughout my childhood, “Sticks and stones may break my bones,...

I bought a sign for my laundry area at the dollar store recently that reads, “Laundry, sorting out life one...

Like many people, I was a Target fan.  I lived for the clearance pile.  My heart would pound with excitement...

I am always trying to comprehend the ways of God, but it’s just not possible with my finite mind.  The...

Catholicism is a fascinating thing.  Often I am really stumped by it.  There is so much doctrine, ritual, legalism, rote...

On a recent trip out of town we had three great choices of where to go out for breakfast.  We...

I’m not a Jolly Jane when I wake up in the morning.  All my problems and worries immediately come flooding...

One of the saddest, most heart-wrenching experiences I have had was watching my grandmother, and then my mother, descend into...

I used to always say, “Mother feels best when everyone’s in the nest.”  Well, nowadays the nest has been mostly...

I find it interesting the way people receive gifts differently.  Maybe this stems from my grandmother sobbing whenever she received...